On May 14, 2010, the White House announced that because the actions and policies of the Government of Burma continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on May 20, 1997, and the measures adopted on that date, on July 28, 2003, in Executive Order 13310, on October 18, 2007, in Executive Order 13448, and on April 30, 2008, in Executive Order 13464 to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect for another year. (Press release, dated 05/14/10, avaialble at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/notice-president-continuation-national-emergency-with-respect-burma.)

The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has added a sentence to its announcement that a metric unit of measure and quantity is required for the Lacey Act declaration as of May 1, 2010. The new sentence states that in response to industry concerns, APHIS will implement a grace period of two months (ending July 1, 2010), to allow industry to make the needed changes to declaration procedures. (Notice, posted 05/17/10, available at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/lacey_act/downloads/ClarificationQuantityandUnitofMeasure.pdf)

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued two notices that either reissue or revoke an ocean transportation intermediary (OTI) license, as follows:

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a notice that lists those applying for ocean transportation intermediary licenses as a non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC), ocean freight forwarder (FF) or NVOCC/FF OTI, as follows:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recalls:

The State Department has issued Federal Register notice of its April 30, 2010 certification of 38 nations and Hong Kong as meeting the requirements set by Section 609 of Public Law 101-162 for continued importation of shrimp and products of shrimp into the U.S. (Public Notice 7013, FR Pub 05/18/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-11846.pdf)

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission is issuing an update to its notice of open public hearing on May 20, 2010 in Washington, DC to address "China’s Emergent Military Aerospace and Commercial Aviation Industry," in order to change the hearing room to 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building. (FR Pub 05/18/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-11829.pdf)

Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioners Nord and Northup have both posted blogs criticizing the draft House legislation put forth by Representative Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, to fix the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. Both say the reform bill would not provide sufficient relief. (Nord and Northup blogs available at http://nancynord.wordpress.com and http://safetyandcommonsense.blogspot.com/2010/05/survival-of-fewest.html)